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Pan and Tilt control for the Raspberry Pi Camera

I was fortunate enough to get access to a prototype of Pi-Pan from www.mindsensors.com during their kickstarter.
The kickstarter has finished and they reached their goal. However they will be selling Pi-Pan from www.mindsensors.com at a future date.

Pi-Pan comes with two servos, a controller board, screws, a mount and instructions. It also comes with some python code that shows how the device can be operated.

(The controller board in the image below is a prototype and the production board will be a lot smaller.)

Pi-pan is well made and and feels solid once assembled, which only takes 5 minutes. There is also a mount which can be used to mount Pi-Pan on a case or other objects. I mounted mine directly on the Pi-Pan controller board for now.

PWM is required to drive the servos and the sample code uses Servoblaster which works very well. I also used Servoblaster in my code below.

OpenElectronics also has a light module (Pi-Light) which can be mounted on the front of the Pi camera to improve lighting and there is also a case in the works.